Ten documentaries from countries including Italy, Iran, Mexico, the United States, South Africa, Spain and Canada are screening until Saturday, March 6 at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in Toronto. The festival kicked off on February 24 with a Gala screening of Canadian documentary Last Train Home and will travel from Toronto to New York, London and San Fransisco.
All films, excluding the Opening Night Gala screen at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto.
2010 Festival Selection
Back Home, Tomorrow (Italy) — Documentary
Backyard (Mexico) — Drama
Be Like Others (Iran) — Documentary
Last Train Home (Canada) — Documentary
Presumed Guilty (Mexico) — Documentary
My Neighbor, My Killer (US) — Documentary
Tapologo (South Africa/Spain) — Documentary
The Greatest Silence (US) — Documentary
Triage (Ireland/Spain) — Drama
Welcome (France) — Drama
Advance tickets for the festival can be purchased online at tiff.net/cinematheque, by phone at 416-968-FILM or toll-free 1-877-968-FILM or in person at the TIFFG Box Office, 2 Carlton Street, West Mezzanine level (College subway station), from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Monday through Friday). Tickets cost $10.90 for adults; $6.45 for students and seniors, plus handling charges. Tickets for Cinematheque members are $6.45.
Human Rights Watch created the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in 1994. The Festival has become a leading venue for distinguished fiction, documentary and animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme.
Visit www.humanrightsfilmfestival.ca for more details.
Photo: Last Train Home more (dir. Lixin Fan, Canada, 2009)
